invisibl Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 HI All, I have been issued with the above laptop. As far as I know the hardwar build will be pretty standard, as it is issued by the company I work for. I am pretty new to the whole windows environment, so I am treading carefully as I dont want to break the install that is currently on it. It has a bunch of different LAN and VPN acess configs on it and as it is a fairly major global corp I work for, I dont wish to do anything intrusive or potentially harmful to it. It seems from the HCL and several posts I have read that the laptop will work with this project. That said: My Plan is to buy either a 4GB USB thumb drive (Ideally) or an external USB drive and install OSX to that. I will back up the C drive to DVD before I start, If I can somehow clone it so I can reinstall/image the C drive easily if all goes pearshaped then that would be ideal. I will/am investigating what would be best to do this with, As suggested by a colleague and from what I have read here, I need to reduce the partition size that houses the OS and current documents/files using Partition magic so I can more easily back up the C drive. Currently 6.8 or so Gb are used on a 93 GB internal drive. Any suggestions here are welcomed! I have the 10.4.8 Jas reseed DVD image at home on my G4 mac. I intend to burn this to DVD and install from there as suggested by the many posts I have read thru. I have searched for "USB" and "FLASH" as topic headings to find out the best way to go about this little success and as outlined above I have some trepidation in starting this process. CAn any one shed some light as to how to do this safely? MY CMD line knowledge is pretty scarce but I am a quick learner and will be approaching this with as much planning as I can muster. I will provide any and all info I can to any kind soul who may wish to spend time helping me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40527-latitude-d620/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisibl Posted January 31, 2007 Author Share Posted January 31, 2007 Bump Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40527-latitude-d620/#findComment-289616 Share on other sites More sharing options...
go_marquette Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 see my instructions (foolproof!) on the OSX Installation Guide forum (search for D620)...I have my work laptop dual booting Windows XP and OSX86... Issues: - No wireless (I have the Intel ABG...) - No wired (I have the Broadcom 57XX Gigabit - I get it to work for about 30 seconds before it panics the kernel) - No sound (haven't really tried to get it working...don't really care) I'm running 10.4.8 and about to update the kernel to latest and greatest. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40527-latitude-d620/#findComment-303982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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